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DCFS to add investigators, cut caseloads
Tribune reporterDespite deep state budget cuts, the state’s child-welfare agency has reached an agreement with a watchdog group to lower caseloads for frontline workers who investigate critical hotline calls alleging abuse and neglect. The Illinois Department of...Tags: Employees, Government Debt, Abusive Behavior, Rod Blagojevich, Layoffs and Downsizing
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State, ACLU reach pact to reduce DCFS caseloads
The state's child welfare agency has reached an agreement with a watchdog group to lower troubling caseload levels for workers who investigate hotline calls alleging abuse and neglect. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services plans to...
Tags: Employees, Abusive Behavior, Chicago Tribune, Job Layoffs, Career and Workplace
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Mother of drowning victim wants to end swimming at Lake Tapps
Q13 FOX News reporterThree drownings in 10 months -- and some are saying enough is enough on Lake Tapps. The mother of one victim said Tuesday these deaths should be a wake-up call. She wants to end swimming on the lake altogether. Marcus Henderson is the latest victim to...Tags: Politics, Lakes and Ponds, Lobbying
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Coronado mansion mystery: one year later
CORONADO, Calif. -- Coronado's Spreckels Mansion has been a staple of the community for decades. However, for the last year it has been associated with one incident. The death of 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau. On July 13th, 2011, Zahau was found hanging...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Lawyers, Law Enforcement, Companies and Corporations, Jonah Shacknai
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After drowning, emotional appeal made for lifeguards at Lake Tapps in Bonney Lake
Q13 FOX News reporterSome Bonney Lake residents made an emotional appeal to the City Council Tuesday night to hire lifeguards for Lake Tapps in Allan Yorke Park, where a popular 16-year-old boy drowned last week. The boy, Quentin Boggan, was a member of the Bonney Lake... -
Kevin Hunt: West Hartford Doctor Challenges GE On `Sabbath Mode' Oven
The Hartford CourantA two-year-old gas oven sits, like new, in the kitchen of a residence retired pediatrician and neonatologist Robert Harris of West Hartford uses only on Friday nights and Saturdays for the Jewish Sabbath. It's not the oven he thought he was getting,...Tags: Religion and Belief, West Hartford, Judaism, General Electric Company
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Area residents divided on possible expansion of gambling in Maryland
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comHagerstown resident Rick Curry did not hide his opposition Monday to the expansion of gambling in Maryland. “People have enough addictions already,” he said. “We have lotteries, tip jars and scratch-offs.” Curry, 50, was among...Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Tour Operations Industry, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Lifestyle and Leisure, Casino and Gambling
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Too little, too late
When Crystal Valdez brought her son Christopher to the emergency room last July, a doctor quickly suspected the boy hadn't been hurt in the way his mom claimed.
The bright-eyed 3-year-old with a shock of brown hair and a fascination with superheroes...Tags: Accidental Death, Judges, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Hospitals and Clinics
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State's care before killings is questioned
Chicago Tribune reportersD'Andre Howard left plenty of clues that he was on a dangerous path before he was accused of killing three members of a Hoffman Estates family, but state officials and outside agencies failed to act on those warnings, a new report concludes. Howard's...Tags: Crimes, Assault, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Drug Trafficking, Sex Crimes
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High DCFS caseloads raise red flags
Fred Pennix recently drove into Chicago's crime-ridden Englewood neighborhood to check on two of the nearly 40 families under his watch as a state child-protection investigator. It was a holiday but, worried about the children's safety, he was going to...Tags: Cook County, Abusive Behavior, AFSCME, Chicago, Englewood
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Roman Polanski to direct movie about the Dreyfus affair
24 FramesRoman Polanski, a director who has had extensive personal experience with a justice system he and supporters believe wronged him, will make a movie about another exceptionally high-profile trial: the Dreyfus affair. Polanski will direct “D,” a... -
Costa Mesa man receives settlement from city
COSTA MESA — The city has settled a federal lawsuit filed by a man who claimed a police officer arrested him after planting fraudulent evidence. The multimillion dollar lawsuit was settled for $150,000. The settlement protects the city from further...Tags: Laws, Justice System, Cocaine, Punishment, Litigation
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